included · Communication
A Billion for Boris
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
Comedy
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Communication.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Confirmed 8/10: Boris's broken television starts receiving tomorrow's broadcasts, and the future information drives the gambling and crime plot in this Freaky Friday companion. Cross-time information is the premise of the whole film, though nobody travels.
A television receives future broadcasts, enabling advance knowledge of racing results.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 29.06 base × 71.2% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Scott Schutzman Tiler, Mary Tanner Bailey, Seth Green, Tim Kazurinsky, Lee Grant
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